Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore

Studies on the Legend of the Holy Grail With Especial Reference to the Hypothesis of Its Celtic Origin

Description of the leading forms of the Romance: Conte del Graal--Joseph d'Arimathie--Didot-Perceval--Queste del Saint Graal--Grand Saint Graal--Parzival--Perceval le Gallois-- Mabinogi of Peredur--Sir Perceval--Diu Crône--Information respecting date and authorship of these wo...

Chapters

12. CHAPTER II.

=The Conte du Graal.=--PSEUDO-CHRESTIEN.[8]--The story tells of the "Graal," whose mysteries, if Master Blihis lie not, none may reveal; it falls into seven parts, and shows how...

24. CHAPTER X.

Popularity of the Arthurian Romance--Reasons for that Popularity--Affinities of the Mediæval Romances with early Celtic Literature; Importance of the Individual Hero; Knighthood...

21. CHAPTER VII.

The various forms of the visit to the Grail Castle in the romances--Conte du Graal: Chrestien; Gautier-Manessier; Gautier-Gerbert--Didot-Perceval--Mabinogi--Conte du Graal: Gawa...

15. CHAPTER IV.

Villemarqué--Halliwell--San Marte (A. Schulz)--Simrock--Rochat-- Furnivall's reprint of the Grand St. Graal and of Borron--J. F. Campbell--Furnivall's Queste--Paulin Paris--Potv...

18. Chapter IV, opinion began with Monsieur de Villemarqué by accepting the

Mabinogi as the direct source of the Conte du Graal, and has ended with Zarncke and Birch-Hirschfeld in looking upon it as a more or less direct copy. The most competent of livi...

14. v. 3,445-60 runs thus: Ensinc se departirent, si s'en ala li riches

peschierres dont maintes paroles furent puis, en la grant Bretaigne et ensinc remest Joseph et fina en la terre et ou païs où il fu envoiez de par Jhésu-Crist (275). B III, Dido...

20. v. Hahn in his Sagwissenschaftliche Studien (Jena, 1876), to describe a

tale which figured in the heroic literature of every Aryan race known to him. He examined fourteen stories, seven belonging to the Hellenic mythology, Perseus, Herakles, Oedipus...

13. CHAPTER III.

The legend formed of two portions: Early History of Grail, Quest--Two forms of each portion distinguished--Grouping of the various versions--Alternative hypotheses of developmen...

23. CHAPTER IX.

Summing up of the elements of the older portion of the cycle--Parallelism with Celtic tradition--The Christian element in the cycle: the two forms of the Early History; Brons fo...

25. Chapter XXXII. of the Deutsche Mythologie deserves careful study. Grimm

compares Conduiramur's (Blanchefleur's) nightly visit to Percival's chamber to the appearance at the bedside of the delivering hero of that white maiden, who is so frequently fi...

22. CHAPTER VIII.

The Fisher King in the Conte du Graal, in the Queste, and in Borron and the Grand St. Graal--The accounts of latter complete each other--The Fish is the Salmon of Wisdom--Parall...

10. CHAPTER X.

The Moral and Spiritual import of the Grail-Legend universally recognised--Popularity of the Arthurian Romance-- Reasons for that Popularity--Affinities of the Mediæval Romances...

11. CHAPTER I.

Description of the leading forms of the Romance: Conte del Graal--Joseph d'Arimathie--Didot-Perceval--Queste del Saint Graal--Grand Saint Graal--Parzival--Perceval le Gallois--M...

17. CHAPTER V.

Relationship of the Didot-Perceval to the Conte du Graal--The former not the source of the latter--Relationship of the Conte du Graal and the Mabinogi--Instances in which the Ma...

19. CHAPTER VI.

The Lay of the Great Fool--Summary of the Prose Opening--The Aryan Expulsion and Return Formula--Comparison with the Mabinogi, Sir Perceval, and the Conte du Graal--Originality...

16. Chapter III. The considerations adduced therein, as well as Martin's

criticisms and Hertz's admissions, preclude the necessity of examining it in further detail. Formally speaking, the theory rests upon the assumption that we have Borron's work s...

7. CHAPTER VII.

The various forms of the visit to the Grail Castle in the romances--Conte du Graal: Chrestien; Gautier-Manessier; Gautier-Gerbert--Didot-Perceval--Mabinogi--Conte du Graal; Gawa...

6. CHAPTER VI.

The Lay of the Great Fool--Summary of the Prose Opening--The Aryan Expulsion and Return Formula--Comparison with the Mabinogi, Sir Perceval, and the Conte du Graal--Comparison w...

4. CHAPTER IV.

Villemarqué--Halliwell--San Marte (A. Schulz)--Simrock-- Rochat--Furnivall's reprint of the Grand St. Graal and of Borron--J. F. Campbell--Furnivall's Queste--Paulin Paris-- Pot...

3. CHAPTER III.

The legend formed of two portions: Early History of Grail, Quest--Two forms of each portion distinguished--Grouping of the various versions--Alternative hypotheses of developmen...

5. CHAPTER V.

Relationship of the Didot-Perceval to the Conte du Graal--The former not the source of the latter--Relationship of the Conte du Graal and the Mabinogi--Instances in which the Ma...

8. CHAPTER VIII.

The Fisher King in the Conte du Graal, in the Queste, and in Borron and the Grand St. Graal--The accounts of latter complete each other--The Fish is the Salmon of Wisdom-- Paral...

9. CHAPTER IX.

Summing up of the elements of the older portion of the cycle--Parallelism with Celtic tradition--The Christian element in the cycle: the two forms of the Early History; Brons fo...

1. CHAPTER I.

Description of the leading forms of the Romance: Conte del Graal--Joseph d'Arimathie--Didot-Perceval--Queste del Saint Graal--Grand Saint Graal--Parzival--Perceval le Gallois--...

2. CHAPTER II.

Summaries--Conte du Graal: Pseudo-Chrestien, Chrestien, Gautier de Doulens, Manessier, Gerbert--Wolfram--Heinrich von dem Türlin--Didot-Perceval--Mabinogi of Peredur--Thornton M...